The history of potato. LISTENING 10 form

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8,000 years ago in South America, high atop the Andes, ancient Peruvians were the first to CULTIVATE the potato.

... and created the SOPHISTICATED civilization of the great Incan Empire.

More than 200 years would pass before the potato CAUGHT ON as a major food source throughout Europe.

European peasants with greater food security no longer found themselves at the mercy of the regularly occurring grain FAMINES of the time.

From 1845 to 1852, potato blight disease RAVAGED the majority of Ireland's potato crop, leading to the Irish Potato Famine. (Two solutions)

But of course, this wasn't the end for the potato. The crop eventually RECOVERED.

Possibly, the potato may have contributed to creating our civilization as we know it.

The first farmers of potato migrated to today's Peru 8,000 years ago.

It took 200 years for potato to become known Europe, but only the rich could afford it.

While potato made it possible for the Irish population to grow, they had no other food source to rely on.

Many major milestones in world history can all be at least partially ATTRIBUTED TO the simple spud from the Peruvian hilltops.

Potato crops were decimated (=severely damaged) by a disease, which resulted in widepspread hunger in Ireland in 1852.